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The realm of cosmopolitics and international relations, like the realms of right and ethics, is viewed by the liberal tradition as a domain of rational law. Kant’s aspiration for cosmopolitics was a sphere in which international law, consistent with the dictates of reason, would express the will of every rational being unbiased by geographical and local contingencies and moral irrelevancies.1 The Enlightenment project, in so many ways bound to the political device of the social contract, still looms large over any attempt to understand and construct institutions and procedures for those issues which affect individuals, as individuals yet require transnational cooperation and enforcement.
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Rose, D. (2007). Imagination and Reason: An Ethics of Interpretation for a Cosmopolitan Age. In: Morgan, D., Banham, G. (eds) Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210684_4
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